Chapter 16.70
DEDICATIONS AND FEES
Sections:
16.70.010 Dedications generally.
16.70.010 Dedications generally.
A. Right-of-way dedications, irrevocable offers of dedication, and grants of easements required upon a final or parcel map shall either be accepted, consented for recordation, accepted subject to improvement, or rejected at the time the final or parcel map is approved. Acceptance of the dedication or easement shall serve to transfer the appropriate interest to the city, subject to the terms of the offer and the acceptance certificate. Rejection of the dedication or easement shall reserve the city’s ability to accept all or part of the dedication or easement in accordance with state law. The city engineer shall determine whether the dedication, irrevocable offer of dedication, or easement shall be accepted, accepted subject to improvement, or rejected pursuant to city standards. No utility easement or other rights-of-way shall be granted within proposed street dedications subsequent to the date of filing of a preliminary tentative map. Necessary right-of-way outside of the subdivision boundary shall be processed by separate instruments.
B. Fee title shall be granted by the subdivider when, in the opinion of the city engineer, it is necessary to carry out policies and requirements of the general plan and any city ordinance, resolution, or standard.
C. The types of dedications, easements, or grants of fee title that a subdivision may be subject to may include, but not be limited to, streets, alleys, access rights, drainage, public utility, landscape, slope, sewer, and parkland dedication or in-lieu fees. Dedication of land or payment of fees in lieu of dedication of parkland shall be pursuant to the provisions contained in Chapter 16.75 (Parkland Dedication and Fees).
D. Whenever a subdivider is required to dedicate roadways to the public, he or she may also be required to dedicate such additional land as may be necessary and feasible to provide bicycle paths or multiuse paths for the use and safety of the residents of the subdivision as determined by the approval authority.
E. The subdivider shall offer a dedication or an irrevocable offer of dedication of land within the subdivision for local transit facilities such as bus turnouts, benches, shelters, landing pads and similar items which directly benefit the residents of a subdivision if (1) the subdivision as shown on the tentative map has the potential for two hundred (200) dwelling units or more if developed to the maximum density shown on the adopted general plan or contains one hundred (100) acres or more, and (2) the approving authority finds that transit services are or will within a reasonable time period be made available to such subdivision.
F. The subdivider shall offer a dedication of land within the subdivisions as may be necessary and feasible to provide for the construction of the city’s trails master plan as determined by the approval authority. (Ord. 22-12 § 3 (Exh. A))
16.70.020 Fees generally.
Development impact fees shall be paid as described in Section 16.80.010(B). (Ord. 22-12 § 3 (Exh. A))